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Date:      Sun, 12 Sep 1999 15:30:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
To:        des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to prevent motd including os info
Message-ID:  <199909122230.PAA31675@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <xzp671g0wuo.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> from Dag-Erling Smorgrav at "Sep 12, 1999 09:10:39 pm"

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> "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> writes:
> > > One thing I'd like very much, though, would be to have the output of
> > > fsck -p logged somehow [...]
> > Actually I would like _all_ the output from /etc/rc* to be avaliable
> > after boot.  It should be in the syscons scroll back buffer, [...]
> 
> No. The scrollback may be too short (especially after an fsck of a
> large filesystem after a crash), and it may even be empty (if you put
> something like VESA_132x60 in allscreens_flags in rc.conf)

We can tune the size of the scroll back buffer can't we?  And fsck output
even after a crash is usually not that long, if it gets long it usually
has more problems than fsck -p can deal with and stops any way.

Why does switching display mode screw up the scroll back buffer?  That
sounds broken to me.

> 
> > And solving only 1 piece of output from /etc/rc is an incomplete
> > concept.  I really like to know if ntpdate stepped my clock 230000 seconds
> > for some reason, thats why this (usually means a clock chip has gone
> > zonkers :-)):
> 
> Doesn't ntpdate log what it does with syslog?  If not, I think
> whichever syscall it is that ntpdate uses to adjust the time should
> printf() or log() the change.

If you give it the -s option, yes it will syslog it.  But doing that
to everything in /etc/rc* seems like a pain in the *ss...


-- 
Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25)                    rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net


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